Our featured guest is Ray Blackwell..manager of one of Irelands best known folk clubs – de barra Pub in Clonakilty..in the very south of Ireland.
And why you ask are we there..?
That’s because when you walk in ..you see photos of all the fine young bands who worked their way to the top through this very pub..
Every wall is covered..

But one wall is filled with rock memorabilia belonging to Noel Redding, who was the bass player in The Jimi Hendrix Experience..at the time the biggest rock act in The world.
After Jimi died and Noel had had enough of Los Angeles..he headed back to Ireland and lived quietly outside Clonakilty..until an technician who was working on his house and played in a local band convinced Noel to come and play downtown..and that he did for some 20 years.
Ray fills in the rest of the story..and then he gave me a vinyl release Noel’s friends put out..with Noel on bass..we’ll be playing that for the first time in Canada..